Dust Evans Gallery: Featured Artist
Get your hands dirty and explore your creativity at Gloucester Pottery School this year!
Gloucester Pottery School showcasing the work of six diverse professional artists a year in the Dust Evans Gallery. Exhibitions are visible online and in person at the Shenkman Art Center, the gallery is locating on the lower level next to the City of Ottawa's Trinity Gallery. In the past the gallery has had exhibitions by a a diverse range of artists and moving into our 4th decade we will seek to give more Dust Evans Gallery exhibition opportunities to artists in equity-seeking communities.
Kirsti Smith: My Silly Little Demise
Artist statement
From early on, Kirsti has always used her creativity as an expression of her own reality. She begins with inspirations from her own family's ties to religion, sisterhood, and emotions such as grief and innocence to produce physical moments. She creates tactile art that can be touched, as well as emotionally connected to; forming an intimate experience for the viewer. Her most recent body of work is focused on themes of rebirth and new beginnings. Blurring the line between fine art and functional ceramics, Kirsti brings familiar emotions into tangible experiences.
Artist BIO
Kirsti Smith is a ceramic artist from Peterborough, Ontario. She studied at Sheridan college in the Craft and Design program and later transferred to NSCAD where she received her BFA majoring in Ceramics. Smith has been an artist in residence with Craft Nova Scotia, The Waterloo Clay and Glass Gallery and has had a solo show at Atelier Lumilda Gallery. She also took part in the Toronto Outdoor Art Fair where she won the ceramic excellence award in 2022. All of these experiences help build her portfolio and confidence as an emerging ceramic artist.
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Works from current exhibition available for sale:
Upcoming Exhibitions
Future Exhibitions:
The Gloucester Pottery School intends to showcase the immense variety in the way the material can be explored. It is very important to the school and the community that the Dust Evans Gallery represent the greater diversity in ceramics seeking to give more Dust Evans Gallery exhibition opportunities to artists in equity-seeking communities.
All items are listed as local pickup. If you would like an item shipped within Canada or US please let us know and we will send you a sperate invoice for shipping costs. Items will be available for pickup or shipping following completion of the exhibition. If you are in the US please enter our address as shipping address, it will not allow you to enter an American address: 245 Centrum Blvd. Ottawa, Ontario K1E 0A1